(n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.
Example Sentences:
(1) This supports the hypothesis that glial nodules unassociated with Toxoplasma tachyzoites may represent the tombstone of a Toxoplasma cyst.
(2) It's not hard to picture her, dodging the autograph-hunters, wisecracking at the tombstones, seizing life while she can.
(3) Might a leg, or an arm or a finger be sticking out from under Gaskell's smiling tombstone?
(4) The garment is emblazoned with a tombstone on which "Thatcher" is etched, with the slogan below reading "A generation of trade unionists will dance on Thatcher's grave."
(5) But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
(6) If he dies there, what should be engraved on his tombstone?
(7) I went to ask the local priest, who said they had taken the tombstones and crushed them for building materials or something like that.
(8) "I've told my comrade Trevor [Manuel, the planning minister], in my will, I leave very clear instructions when I pass, my obituary or tombstone – if anybody believes I deserve a tombstone – should say: 'Others made suggestions and he implemented.'"
(9) Some are inspirational, such as the grave of Philip Gould , the Labour strategist, who wanted his tombstone to be a gathering place where the living could meet and even commune with the dead.
(10) That three-word phrase, expressing a sincere hope that the dead will find peace in the afterlife, is a fitting inscription for a tombstone, and now a very popular hashtag on social media.
(11) Mandelson held up a Tory campaign poster featuring a tombstone, which attacked Labour's social care plan for the elderly, adding: "And by the way, don't give us any lectures about frightening, scaremongering advertisements.
(12) His film roles to date include starring alongside Liam Neeson in action movie A Walk Among the Tombstones and family adventure film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.
(13) He spoke of “rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape”, the workers who had been “forgotten” and “left behind”, and promised they would be forgotten no more.
(14) Four men developed silicosis after sandblasting tombstones for an average of 35 months; 3 of them died an average of 59 months after their first exposure to sandblasting.
(15) A few days earlier I had spoken to Carmen Mercer, the group's vice president, who "started securing the border with a handful of patriotic Americans" in her home town of Tombstone.
(16) Allende equally jokily chimed in: "Young man, do you know what's going to be on my tombstone?"
(17) Hayes is a founder of the Cornerstone – dubbed Tombstone – group of socially conservative Tories which gave Cameron a significant boost in the 2005 leadership contest after backing him when he agreed to pull his party out of the centre-right EPP grouping in the European parliament.
(18) The television adverts had made it plain: the sexually active among us were headed for an early grave under a towering tombstone marked by those four letters.
(19) This came too late,” said Smajlovic, who lives alone in her home overlooking 7,000 white tombstones where the victims were buried.
(20) I find it eventually – there is a tableau vivant of tombstones and a pair of people dressed as Burma's president Thein Sein and David Cameron with outsize papier-mâché heads – but I'm distracted from stories of potential genocide by the activities of Stonewall and the London Gay Chorus who are also protesting, just yards away.